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Job Description:

Clivus Multrum is seeking a full-time Maintenance Services Provider to provide maintenance services to customers primarily in the NY/NJ/PA region. This position has two major focuses. The first is to regularly transport compost liquid fertilizer from a large facility in NYC to the recipient farm in Hudson NY. This will entail driving our small pumper truck (2000 gallons). A commercial driver’s license (CDL) is required. This task will be performed approximately 25 times per year. The second focus is compost system maintenance duties in fulfillment of maintenance contracts throughout the region (company vehicle and equipment provided). Record keeping of these activities is another important component to this position. Other duties will be assigned as needed. It is assumed that the person filling this position will be based in the Mid-Hudson Valley region.

Requirements:

The successful applicant for this position will be comfortable with daily and occasionally overnight travel.  They should have a good driving record. The successful application will have at least two years of hands-on experience in a trade such as plumbing, construction, or electrical work. Microsoft Office knowledge also required. A commitment to environmental work is highly desirable.

Compensation includes a competitive salary plus excellent benefits package, including full health insurance and an employer-matching retirement savings program.

To apply:

Please send cover letter and resume to: forinfo@clivusmultrum.com

M12 composting toilet system

Restroom with waterless fixture at the Jan Phillips Learning Center

The College School, a private K-8 school located in greater St. Louis, MO,  completed construction of the 6,550 sq ft Jan Phillips Learning Center in December 2016. The Learning Center will provide opportunities for students and visitors to connect with nature and explore sustainability. It was built to achieve Living Building certification.

A Clivus Multrum M12 composting toilet system and greywater irrigation system were installed to help achieve the Center’s net zero water goals.

Congratulations to Dan Hellmuth, Principal at Hellmuth & Bicknese Architects, who was named as one of seven recipients of the 2013 Living Building Challenge™ Heroes Award.  The award honors individuals who have “demonstrated exceptional commitment to the Living Building Challenge and whose work has helped to create an ecologically resilient and regenerative built environment.”

Dan Hellmuth was the lead architect on the Tyson Living Learning Center, which was one of the first two projects to become fully certified under the Living Building Challenge. The Tyson building includes Clivus composting toilet systems.

Read the full article here.

The International Living Building Institute features the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center in its latest issue of Trim Tab. The Brock Environmental Center is being built to meet the Living Building Challenge and Clivus is being used as the basis of design for the restrooms.

According to the Living Building Challenge website, it is “the built environment’s most rigorous performance standard. It calls for the creation of building projects at all scales that operate as cleanly, beautifully and efficiently as nature’s architecture. To be certified under the Challenge, projects must meet a series of ambitious performance requirements, including net zero energy, waste and water, over a minimum of 12 months of continuous occupancy.”

Read the full article here.

An article by Clivus Multrum’s very own Don Mills was recently published in Construction Digital. In the article, Mills describes the design, installation and function of the Clivus composting toilet system in New York City’s One World Trade Center (1 WTC), where five composting units, 10 Foam-flush toilets and 10 urinals were installed in shipping containers during the 2-3 year construction phase of the project, saving significant costs for the contractor. This is the first time that a construction project has utilized composting toilet systems instead of portable latrines.

You can read the full article here.

Congratulations to Duke Farms, which will receive the 2012 Community Award from the NJ chapter of the US Green Building Council. According to the Messenger Gazette, the award recognizes Duke Farms’ success in converting “the 2,740-acre former Duke family estate in Hillsborough into an environmental education center and recreation destination that would be a model of environmental stewardship.” The green re-design focused on three elements: “the adaptive re-use and re-purposing of existing buildings, rather than building anew; the energy-efficient upgrading of 110-year-old utilities and the commitment to energy and water conservation; and the regeneration of landscapes to foster preservation of native species.”

Duke Farms purchased and installed three Clivus M54 Trailhead units within the last year in order to provide public restroom facilities. The mission of the farm is to teach visitors to “be good stewards of the environment” and the Clivus composting toilet systems were purchased because they fit with the organization’s mission and because the restrooms provide remote facilities.

21 Acres, a non-profit organization in Woodinville, WA, whose mission is to cultivate, demonstrate and advance systems that support sustainable agriculture, recently opened its brand new LEED Platinum-certified facility with Clivus composting toilet systems for public restroom access.

21 Acres provides educational programs and events, an indoor farmer’s market and access to a commercial kitchen. The retail Market opened for business on May 3, 2012. 

A Portland, OR, home with a Clivus compost toilet system is currently being built to meet both Living Building Challenge and Passive House standards. The home was featured recently in the DJC Oregon’s article, “Super-green ‘Full Plane Passive House’ Being Built in Portland.”

Duke Farms, in Hillsborough, NJ, installed three Clivus M54 Trailhead units within the last year in order to provide public restroom facilities at the 2,740-acre estate. According to a recent New York Times article that features the farm, “the estate has 22 miles of trails winding past fountains, lagoons and sculptures; 810 acres of woodlands; and 464 acres of a grassland bird habitat” and is home to “30 endangered species and 230 varieties of birds.”

The farm will re-open to the public on May 19, 2012. The mission of the farm is to teach visitors to “be good stewards of the environment” and the Clivus composting toilet systems were purchased because they fit with the organization’s mission and because the restrooms provide remote facilities.

May 2-4, 2012

Location: Portland, OR

Clivus Multrum’s own Don Mills will present at the upcoming Living Future 2012 unConference, hosted by the International Living Future Institute. “Case Studies: Opportunities and Challenges as Projects Get Bigger, How Systems Thinking and Integrative Design help meet the Challenge,” will be presented by the design team from the Tyson Living Learning Center (one of the first two certified Living Buildings), including Don Mills, Dan Hellmuth (Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects, LLC), and Neil Myers of (Williams Creek Consulting). The presenters will discuss a Living Building Challenge design for a three-story dormitory at Berea College.